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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1887-11-30

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Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

Tagging is not easy work at Elton. Fags
not only have to wait on their fagmasters
at almost all hours to bring them water and
to look out for their rooms, but they even
have to cook for them. All the boys of a
house take their dinner together, but except
ing in two or three houses, where new rule
has been made, every one has his breakfast
and tea in his own room. And for these
meals the poor Tags are cooks and walters
There is even a kitchen provided for their
special use, where they boil water, brew tea
and toast bread. Many heartachcs have
there been in those little kitchens. Fancy a
yomlgstcr just out Of the home nursery, you
might say, being set to making toast when
he knows as little about it as he does about
Latin verses, And yet, take him TO task
with all the Indignation of disappointed
hunger and then send him off to Go his
work over again. But he grows hardened
by degrees to this work just as he does to
verse making, and in time can joke and
laugh as he cooks. And, if while he talks he
forgots his toast and lets it burn, what mat
ter With q little experience he learns to
scrape off the black with a knife st.
Nicholas.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
Society in Mexico.

The habits Of good society here are quite
the same, with little more dash Of aban-
don, as any where in the world. The ladies
wear imported Paris hats entirely. The
sevillana, or modern small mantilla-a most
delightfully."- graceful headdress which ought
to be the fashion in the states in the sum-
mer, so universally becoming is it to all
woman-is not at all displaced by the French
hat. The sevillana is entirely permissible
in the forenoon hours, and no lady wears
a bonnet to church. The church costume is
a black silk or WOODEN dress and sevillana,
and if YOU want to see some beautiful Span
ish types among the ladies go to the cathe-
dral OK to the Santa Brigida or Profesa
churches OF morning-where, among the
hundreds Of kneeling worshipers; you will
see faces that an American painter would
give much to transfer to canvas The
Mexican ladies go to church daily in the
morning hours, for her worship is not re-
stricted to one day in the week, and the
Mexican church is not a combination OF
lecture rooms, reception halls and church
kitchen 1t is place in which to worship
God AMI not to make display of toilets
and to sell oyster stews.-Cor. Boston Her
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
HIRING FURNISHED HOUSES.
What They Cost in New York During
the Winter Season.

No European city has better hotels than
ours. and foreign tourists have been long
used to spending time and money in them
Now they are coming to demand greater
home comforts, and of course. at greater
coSt: but cost is about the last thing to be
considered when a rich man is in search of
the pleasures of life and travel. But the Gus
tom Of hiring furnished houses in New York
for the winter season is growing. and 1t Is
said BY we'll known real estate agent in
this city that more uptown mansions have
been let by their rich owners this winter
than ever before.
In renting a furnished house for from
four to six months in the winter every
thing is included in the furnishings except
linen, silver plate and fine china. Delicate
bits of bric-a-brac are commonly put away
By the owners, because tenants prefer 10 be
free from the care of them and without re-
sponsibility for their safety. The causes
which bring these fashionable and elegantly
furnished houses into the market for part
OF the year are various. Many New York
families spend their winters il Europe.
Sometimes a death in the family makes it
desirable to look for rest and change of sur
roundincs in travel Again, Washington is
winter and many New York families repair
thither for the time and let their home
mansions In this way they are relieved Of
the care OF their houses, and the cost Of the
winters travel is reduced, If not, IN fact,
quite Offset,
Many we'll known New York families do
themselves live il furnished houses in the
winter AMI spend their summers in travel
abroad. L ,-csts no more than 10 maintain
all establishment al tie year round slld live
in il. ana the arrangement has many adj
vantaGes 20 those who love TO roam.
The demand for elegantly furnished
houses in fashionable neicnborhoodS begins
early in the autumn and lasts until about the
middle of Decembe-. the best customers
usually COMM, at the last beca1Se they stat
in the country as lace as possible, knowing
that, as they are willing 10 pay almost any
price, they are sure OF getting house when
they want il For periods of from four 70 SIX
months rentals range from 500 TO 81, 900
month for 8 very elegantly furnished
house. and in the spring the temporary tan
ant has but to pack and store his silver and
linen, and take flight for the country or sea
| side.-New York Sun
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
From PLENTY TO POVERTY.
4 Sixteen Course Dinner at Delmonico's
A Managers Career

4 Sixteen Course Dinner at Delmonico's.
Managers Career.
When Charles Bradlaugh visited this
country the Lotos club gave him a dinner.
The feast was eaten in the old club house on
irving place. lt was an elaborate affair,
winding its boa ccnstrictor-like way through
| sixteen courses or 50, with wine enough to
float a three decker. Opposite me at table
sat then prominent theatrical manager.
He was ocular and he was hungry. He
| ate his way through the courses and drank
his way down the card with scientific exacti-
tude. Normally corpulent man. MS dis
| tension assumed such proportions as were
alarming to behold. The elasticity Of his
tissues was, l am convinced, tested to the
uttermost point of tension. When / left
the table he was still nibbling crumbs and
washing them down with deep draughts OF
punch fiery enough to put the Sun cholera
mixture to the blush.
/ strolled up Broadway to cool off and
dropped in at the Park theatre. After an
act of Oakley Halls ''Crucible, or some
thing equally diverting, went over to the
Palette club restaurant with some friends.
As we chatted at the bar suffocated voice
behind the screen, which separated the res
taurant from the front of the house, called
out: Il say, waitah, nevah mind those
chops; give me a portah house steak and
mushrooms insteadr'
1t was my theatrical manager; my de-
vourer of sixteen courses, with trimmings,
and for half an hour | stood and covertly
watched him, in honest admiration, top
ping off the Bradlaugh banquet with des-
sert OF beef and Burgundy. | had once
heard him estimate the daily expenses of g
gentleman for meat and drink at SO and
considered them extravagant. l now Won
dered how he could get enough for such a
ridiculously trifing sum. He got along
with & much less before he dropped dead the
other day, for he was the William Stuart of
whom the papers had good deal to say the
other morning.
The first time I met Stuart he was the
acting manager of what is now tho Star,
and was then Wallack's theatre. The last
! time was a few weeks ago, when l went
into the shabby saloon attached TO the
house to write a few lines about first per-
Torrance The manager, the gourmand,
the jolly adventurer of two continents, was
snoring III a chair tipped back against the
wall, with half a mug of sour, fiat beer be
side him. He was Old and gray and by
no means savory of aspect. He breathed in
his sleep with hollow rumblings and explo-
sions Of choking sIorts. How far off Del
monico's was that night! How many years
away was porter house garnished with
mushrooms! Tho saints shrive thee, sinner,
with the golden tongue. Thy life carried
its own Observation-Disclosures Trumble in
the Journalist.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

Sister Baptista Of st. Joseph's hospital, in
Philadelphia. has charge OF the ward devoted
to the treatment Of drunkaris, and her sue
cess with that class of patients is said to lie
remarkable. She has effected some notable
cures, hllt there IS one man she can't cure.
Hc is over 60 years of age. has retired from
Business with some S20,000 and has for years
* ~ = regular patient Of Sister Bap;iSta- The
whisky habit is chronic with him. hut as be
has no immediate relatives or friends To
nurse or care for him when he breaks down
from excessive drink, he is received at the
hoS2 -. whenever he applies, which is at
frequent inteTv aiS--New York Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
Did Not Like Women Customers.

Il hate women customers replied a sales
woman III . dry goods store. She had been
asked plumply whether she preferred waiting
on men, and this was her plump answer.
-Why do You prefer menf'
Because they know what they want, and
do not care to keep you standing an hour
while ther tumble over and Tunple up the
goods or the counter. Why, only to-day /
was showing lady black stockings Or
course they were all the same size and quail
ity. Vet she dragged every pair out OF that
box and then wanted to see more. l handed
down two more boxes just ike this one, and
then she asked if we had any more. | told
her no. and then she said might wrap up
one pair for her The lady neAt me made
nine different sales 10 gentlemen while was
,ul,pg with this one woman am going to
ct place in a hardware store, or
where women do not have to deal
-pi-tsLs,rg DiSpStCh
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
To Distinguish Them.

y hank cashier says this Is the way II tell
e twenty-five from twenty cent piece: ~On
the quarter the eagle IS looking over it's
right wing a,d on the twenty cent piece
over the LETT wing The chances ere twenty
fve to twenty that if that eagle looked him
straight Ia the eye the cashier would skip TO
Canada. PHILADELPHIA News
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
Rich Ice Harvest.

The annual revenue from the sale Of ice
harvested ca iiity-four-acre pond near
Trucks. Net. Is S.5,@l \ single crop of
ice averages ~ O1J tons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
A TRAGEDY AVERTED.
Hector. the White House Pet, Inter
views Yellow Jacket

Hector. the White House Pet, Inter
views Yellow Jacket.
From Washington Letter to the Baltimore
american.
A sad tragedy was narrowly averted at
the White House this morning. Hector. as
is usual since his release, was friskiug about
the grounds, swapping at flies, and enjoying
himself promiscuously He had Just dis
missed an aristocratic pug, with green rib
bons on his tail with whom he had been ex-
changing salutations, and thrown himself
athwart the asphalt walk to have a good
roll and to return thanks that he is not as
other dogs dre. While he lay absorbed i'll
thought the first spring yellow jacket came
buzZing along, and stopped to toy with his
nose. Hector gave over his reveries until
s'Iv other time, and adroitly fell to inter
viewing the yellow jacket on the second
term. But he had never heard about Scylla
and Charybdis, and so, while he kept dill
gent guard over his nose, to prevent any UNI
due intimacy or encroachments on the part
of his new acquaintance, he was unconscious
of the danger that approached from another
direction. Turning suddenly from the street,
gentleman entered the gateway ON BIZ
cycle, and glided swiftly up the walk He
weighed $50 pounds, and had previous
record of having ridden his bicycle through
two herds of swine with great slaughter.
Closer and closer he came. a collision
meant an ignominious death to Hector and
that there would be a collision seemed in
evitablc.
Suddenly, "You Hectah!" called out a
number of male and female voices from the
White House in concert. He heard it, but
he needed not His thoughts were with his
nose.
"You Hecta-ah-ah-ahl Come. Hec. Come,
pupn screamed the voices.
But "lIec" didn't come. Without any
premonition, the yellow jacket touched the
spring that sets the painful machinery of
his business end in motion, and cut the in
teryiew short. Hector jumped to his feet
with u yell like Comanche Just as the bicy-
Gle was upon him. As he looked around and
saw his new danger, he rushed to the house
bowling like mad. Medical aid was quickly
summoned. A surgical operation was
necessary &c extract the sting, and Hector
was put to bed sadder and a wiser dog,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
MRS. J. H. WOODRUFF,
Fashionable DresSmaker,
Also Lessons on Fancy Needlework.


An hour later q neighbor called sat the
door, wiling torisk the price of a riSw out
fit in order to, be the first to know the
strange ladies'. Mrs. Woodruff and her
daughter received their first visitor with a
cordiality that was calculated to insure for
them not only an early acquaintance with
the people Of the town, but lucrative bust
ness as well. Mrs. Woodrufs wardrobe,
which she showed to the visitor, was suffi-
Gent evidence of her skill in the art of dress
making. The rooms were adorned with the
designs in plush, and Mrs, Woodruff said her
daughter gave special attention to this
branch of needlework ,tIaur .t
Before the ladies separated Mrs. Woodruff
conflded to her new acquaintance that she
was a Southerner by birth, and that her
husband was killed in the war. She had
come North, she said, to see the country,
and had opened her dressplaker's rooms more
for the sake of occupation than for revenue.
Her charges were moderate and in less than
three weeks she was overrun with orders
She always went out to work at the homes
of her customers.
1t was not long after Mrs. Woodruff's adj
vent as a dressmaker that articles were
missed from houses where she sewed. Silver
playthings, gold watches and costly dresses
were missed. Suspected servant girls were
dismissed, but no clue was found to the
thefts No suspicion ever rested on Mrs.
Woodruff
Meanwhile Mrs. Woodruff had visited
almost every house in the neighborhood,
and had plundered them. The value of her
stealings will reach $500. She made reg
ular visits to New York, and on Thursday
she announced that she was going to the
city. She told some Of her friends that she
had a cousin employed as a detective in
New York, and would consult him about
the robberies. Meantime some suspicious
persons proposed entering the house in Mrs
Woodrutf'S absence, and a party of men
broke in. To their utter establishment
they found unmistakable evidence of the
womans guilt. There was evidence also
that she had gone not toretlrn, as the house
was almost empty. A remnant of expensive
dress goods belonging to neighbor was
found hid away.
Nearly every family in town had lost
something of value. The imposition was so
cleverly worked that the confidence of the
people hereabouts will be withheld from all
STRANGERS in the futura
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
A NEGRO HERO.
His Valiant Work Saves LaGrange's
Opera House from Destruction.

His Valiant Work Saves LaGrange's
Opera House from Destruction.
LAGRANGE, GA, May 4.-Fire was dis
covered in the opera house of j. G. Truitt
this evening about Z O'clock 1t caught in
the cotton office of J. B. Harris and it is sup
posed some one dropped cigar stub in the
cotton samples At one time it seemed ut
terly impossible to save the enormous three
story brick building. Its rooms were occu-
pied by lawyers, tailors and doctors as
offices. 1t is feared that considerable dam
age was done TO the effects of the lawyers.
Their books were hurled down to the ground
from the second floor. Desks, books. chairs
and tables were flying in the air very pro-
niscuousiy. George King, the colored hero,
was on hand and saved the building by
his work. He saw that the only
chance to save the house was to get tall
ladder and go in a window. After the
ladder was procured there was no one who
would enter, when up stepped King with
water, mounted the ladder and was ia the
room almost Immediately scattering the
fire. No one thought he would escape. The
damage is estimated at $500. LaCirango
will agitate the water works question
again.
A municipal election was held today IN
this city for Mayor and Councilmen. DR..
+. nj. Ridley was elected Mayor. The
Councilmen elected were T. S. Bradfleld, j.
A. Baugh, Jr., j. G. Whitfield, IL E. Ware
j. L. Toole and J. A. Broom.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
EVENTS ON THE TURF.
Results of the Second Days Runs on
the Ivy City Track.


WASHINGTON, May 4.-This was the sec
ond day of the National Jockey Club races.
The events were as follows:
FIRST RACE-One mile Jennie B. won, with
Nellie Vane second and Punka third Time
l:43 Mutuals paid S54 s.
SECOND RAcE-Ana Costan stakes; for three
yearolds; one mile. Tom Hood won, with Ray
mond second, and Lizzie Barker third. Time
1:44 Mutuals paid S44 So.
THIRD RACE-Sx furlongs; maidens of all
ages Britannia won, with Matewan second,
and Miss Charmer third. Time f:iGl9.
FOURTH RACE-Free handicap sweepstakes zone
mile; three-ye ar-olds and upward. Richmond
won, with Herbert second and Miss Goodrich
third Time l:45.
FIFTH RAcE-Six furlongs; all ages; selling
race. Maggie Mitchell won, with Brambleton
second, and Pat Sheedy third. Time 1916
RACING AT NASHVILLE.
NASHVILLE, May 4.-To-days races were
as follows:
FIRST RAcE-Seven-eighths of a mile. Eva
X. won, with Biddy Bowling second and Aristo-
crat third. Time 1880
SECOND RACE-Three quarters of mile. Lit
tie Minch won, with Sam Harper second and
Straight Flush third. Time 1:i414.
THIRD RAcE-Five-eigh of a mile. Grafton
won, with Bonnie King second and Gounoid
third Time 1:0fA
FOURTH RACE-0ne and one-eighth miles, Egg
mont won, with Favor second and Elgin third.
Time 56L&.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
BRYAN COUNTY's BUDGET.
Court in Session Grand Jury
Condition of Crops.

Condition of Crops.
WAYS STATION, May 4. --Bryan court
was in session on May 2 and s, Judge Adams
presiding. All cases ready for trial were
heard and the entire docket was disposed of
The criminal docket was light and the
charges of minor grade. The grand jury
was an able one, and entered into the in
vestigation of the affairs of the county with
zeal and thoroughness.
Some parties, negroes most probably,
fired the woods in Bryan Neck" about
April 90 doing much damage to timber and
destroying fences for adjoining property
owners They will hear from the proper
authorities,
G. L. Appleton has some thoroughbred
red Polled cattle that he is sure will prove
to be the cattle for South Georgia. The
bull, at less than three years, weighs more
than 1000 pounds The cows of this breed
are said TO be fair average mixers and re-
markable beef producers.
Cabbage in carload lots is being shipped
from Bryan county. The potato crop is re-
tarded by the frost and cold of March and
early April, as well as by recent want of
rain, yet there will be pretty fair average
yield
The area planted in melons will exceed
that of last year by one-fifth to one-fourth
and the crop will be a week to ten days
later than last year.
The oat crop is poor, in fact failure, ex-
cept in few cases where the intensive sys-
tenn is practiced.
The melon vines have grown slowly this
spring, but the warm sunshine of the past
few days is making them spread themselves
rapidly, and with favorably seasons ship
ments viii begin along the line of the Sa-
yannah, Florida and Western railroad by
June II to 15
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
Why He Is Ecstatic.
From the Elmira On. " Gazette

@~'"f'fN'
The fooled lover is ordinarily unhappy.
But Elmira possesses one who is ecstatic
Like other lovers he has been given to using
ardent language, and once when engaged in
this industry he remarked that no change
of time or place, nor any disguise could
cause him to be deceived as to the identity
of his chosen. The lover is young Water
street business man. Early Yesterday morn
ing the door of his store opened heSitatingly
and queer figure entered. 1t was that of a
woman, long past her prime, clad in faded,
antiquated garments, climaXed by non
descript bonnet. Gray heir struggled
over her forehead blue spectacles obscured
her eyes and an old brown veil covered her
chin. She advanced slowly to the counter,
behind which stood John Fitziohn, and
asked, in a voice cracked enough to be
almost broken, TO look at goods She
wanted to buy dress for her grandchild,
but she seemed uncertain about her grand
child's complexion and exact age. Finally,
after securing numerous samples, she took
her leave, gripping them between the fingers
of an unlovely cotton glove, and assured
the patient merchant that she would see
him again. He opened the door and
guided her feeble steps to the outer air, in
wardly hoping she would forget her prom
ise Could lie have seen the old lady.
after she had reached a safe place, jump MIN
bly, up and down and hug her samples much
as if they were not samples) he would have
been as greatly mystifed as he was aston
ished when that evening, his blushing be-
trothed put those samples into his hand and
declared herself the bogus old party. The
reason she loves him more than ever is, be-
cause he was so kindly polite to a trouble
some and unattractive customer, who did
not know her own mind apparently, and
whose purchases, had they been made, would
have been not greatly profitable. And he is
ecstatic for the same reason.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
Beaten at His own Came.
Fl,om tte sd PaM lMinn.l PLoneer P,ess

FROM btc 81, Idut NhtitH} IiOHeeF IfeSS.
Here's poker story, and one that United
States Marshal Smith will vouch for
Pelican Rapids, on the Northern Pacific
railroad, is slow little town, especially
during the winter months, when the Otter
Tail river is frozen up. X. l.. Frazee, we'll
known IN Minnesota, owns n mill in the
village, and employs Hans Micklemann to
look after his interests there. Hans is an
anomaly in that he is successful poker
player He always wins Not long since
some of the boys" az the Rapids formed
combination TO down" Hans, and with Ed
Ingalls, started game in the mill office. As
usual, Hans was a winner. Finally Ingalls,,
while Hans was opening bottle of beer,
I1tng in cold deck and dealt Hans four
kings, two different hands, and TO himself
four aces. The ante was raised several
times, and the bets ran 10 the limit of the
schemers' purse. Hans said: "I'll see that
last raise, but must get some money from
the safe" Suiting the action to the word he
left the table taking his cards with him,
got the money, and changed his hand for a
straight flush, ace high, that he kept in the
safe for such emergencies. OF course he
won the pot, but the sports in Pelican Rapids
are not yet done talking about that ''put-upn
hand, and accuse Ed Ingalls, of standing in"
with Micklemann. But ingalls, knew nothing
Of the trick, losing fair share of the SlG0
which MiciIlemann won.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
SPECIAL NOTICES.
~-~-~--N~)
NOTICE.

WATER Works OFFICE
At 10 o'clock THIS DAY water from the new
Artesian Wells at the works will be substituted
for the Savannah river water. In making this
change. to prevent total absence of water in the
city for possibly three days, the supply will be
given from the small pump, and consequently
water will be delivered under a reduced press
ure until the larger pump can be connected up,
which will require 48 hours. 1t is earnestly de-
sired that waste and unnecessary use of the
water during this time will be checked and
avoided All public and private fountains must
be closed off, and as light sprinking as possible;
and the use of the fire hydrants for any other
purpose than.fires is strictly prohibited.
A. n. MILLER,
Superintendent Savannah Water Works.
NAV 9Th 1897